Love the Coopers

"Despite the impressive cast, this is a thoroughly contrived and trite festive film. It could easily be swapped with any other that follows a group of well-off white Americans who overcome their various troubles and differences to have a nice Christmas together."

"Lurches awkwardly between gloominess and giddiness, never hitting the boisterously bittersweet groove it seeks."

"The result is like stuffing yourself with Christmas pudding: sweet, glutinous, a bit too much."

"One of the most jumbled, tonally misguided holiday movies in recent memory."

"Amid all this holiday melancholia, Wilde bursts into the film with an intensity that feels held over from another, better movie."

"Hackneyed humor and warmed-over life lessons are strewn like so much overused tinsel."

"A Christmas comedy of numbing tedium and tackiness."

"Even with such a talented ensemble, Love The Coopers' convoluted narrative and overreliance on Christmas clichés keeps it from sparking any real holiday magic."